Overview:

NetCloud Engine provides distributed, cloud-driven enterprises with a nextgeneration WAN—secure, software-defined, and delivered as a cloud-based service. The NetCloud Engine platform is fueled by SDN and virtualization software to eliminate the hardware, complexity, and operational costs of traditional WANs. This extends the simplicity, security, and utility of Layer-3 LANs anywhere across the Internet.

Now IT teams can build and deploy virtual overlay networks in minutes to connect people, places, and things—like remote or distributed workforces, IoT devices, pop-up stores or kiosks, and digital signage—across any private or public cloud, plus provide secure access for remote users using Windows, iOS, Android, or Linux devices.

NetCloud Engine works with existing network and security infrastructures. It requires no hardware or configuration, scales instantly, and is subscription-based—so you pay as you grow.

Reduce WAN-related OPEX

Eliminate hardware costs and complexity

Rapidly connect people, places and things

Enhance security & compliance

Enable BYOD

Fueled by Software

Introducing your next WAN—software-defined, delivered as a service, and designed with security in mind for today’s connected enterprise.

NetCloud Engine enables IT and network teams to deploy cloud-based networks in minutes to connect distributed people, places and things anywhere. Our NetCloud Engine platform is fueled by network and service virtualization software and powered by cloud infrastructure—providing Internet reach with private network security and control, and LAN simplicity and mesh connectivity. Now you can make the public Internet your private network without giving up visibility, security and control.

Zero-Trust WANs: Contain Threats When & Where They Happen

As more subnets connect over the WAN, the “attack surface” of a breach or malware infection grows both inside or outside the firewall. To significantly limit the impact of such events, NetCloud Engine’s virtual networks can be micro-segmented on a site, departmental, or even user and device level. The result is a zero-trust WAN that automatically isolates threats and quarantines them when and where they happen.

Rapid Deployment: Define in Minutes, Deploy With Your Tools

Define and deploy virtual networks, connect local and remote users, small offices, IoT devices and sensors, kiosks, digital signage, and even VMs, containers, and servers in minutes rather than days. NetCloud Engine works with popular automation, orchestration, and client software distribution tools, including Puppet, Chef, and Microsoft SCCM.

Network Service Virtualization: Add Services without Appliances

Extend the visibility, security and control of cloud networks with NetCloud Engine Services and Network Service Virtualization. In a few clicks you can add services such as Active Directory integration, security policy deployment for micro-segmentation, and network bandwidth monitoring.

Power of the Cloud: Global Reach, Enterprise Scale, Full Resiliency

The NetCloud Engine platform overlays top-tier cloud data centers around the world, including Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Digital Ocean. This enables massive scale to accommodate large networks and traffic loads, and local points of presence to 80 percent of the world’s computing population. When a disruption occurs, the platform’s SDN and multi-cloud architecture enables affected networks to be automatically migrated to another data center—often within the TCP protocol connection timeout—so users’ sessions are maintained and users themselves are often unaware of any issue.

Extend Active Directory Domains

Deployment:

Solutions:

Remote Access From Anywhere

Cradlepoint helps IT organizations maintain their sanity and budgets while addressing the growing need for remote access from anywhere. Whether keeping up with the demands of your remote and mobile workforce, connecting new remote offices, providing isolated access for contractors, or deploying a temporary network for a construction site or sales meeting, Cradlepoint NetCloud Engine makes it easy.

With Cradlepoint NetCloud Engine, you can build a virtual overlay network to give groups of remote users segmented access to files and applications—whether in the data center or public cloud. Provide users with a seamless LAN experience while eliminating the hardware and headaches of a traditional VPN. Through the admin web console, you can provision users and devices in just a few clicks, and delete them just as fast.

From a security perspective, NetCloud Engine combines strong end-to-end encryption, auto-PKI and machine authentication with a fully cloaked private address space and micro-segmentation capabilities to offer the security of a private network over the public Internet.

Network virtualization enables new security model for cloud and mobile

Scale connectivity when and where you need it

Virtual overlay network, works with existing infrastructure

No hardware upgrades, scalable and always up-to-date

Enterprise Mobility, Extend MDM

NetCloud Engine is designed to address the unique challenges associated with providing secure access to critical files and applications from mobile devices, including Windows, Android and Apple iOS phones and tablets.

Unlike traditional VPNs, you can deploy a virtual overlay network and segregate mobile users and the specific servers they need access to—whether in the data center or public cloud—from everything else. This “quarantine” approach ensures that mobile devices are contained and mobile users cannot access unauthorized resources on data center or office LANs.

M2M & Connected Devices

A machine-to-machine network with NetCloud Engine can securely connect, monitor and manage devices deployed in the field, or anywhere in the world. You can create a virtual overlay network to connect devices using any form of public or private Internet access and segment them by customer, site or function.

Extend your AD Domain Everywhere

Today, Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of enterprise security. It provides essential domain services such as authentication and single sign-on (SSO), password compliance, security and configuration policy (Group Policy), desktop software updates, and DNS. This all works great when everyone's in the office and on the AD domain, but what happens when remote users are off domain for extended periods of time?

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Networking

There are a lot of public cloud options today. Whether your workloads are mainstream applications, disaster recovery, development or cloud bursting, there's a public cloud suited to your needs and workflow. The challenge becomes how to securely network them all together without losing automation and flexibility.

NetCloud Engine lets IT, development and DevOps teams build virtual private cloud (VPC) networks in minutes that connect cloud instances, containers and remote users across any private or public cloud. NetCloud Engine is software-defined and cloud-based, so there's no hardware or configuration and automation is a snap using machine authentication.

Each VPC is a secure, virtual overlay network with its own private address space, eliminating the need for public IP addresses or open inbound firewall ports.

Features:

Connect distributed VMs, containers and remote users on a single subnet

Isolate multiple cloud environments, easily migrate workloads

Virtual overlay network works with any private or public cloud

Superior security over traditional VPNs

Automatable using popular cloud orchestration and deployment tools

Benefits:

Connect distributed VMs, containers and remote users on a single subnet

Isolate multiple cloud environments, easily migrate workloads

Virtual overlay network works with any private or public cloud

Superior security over traditional VPNs

Automatable using popular cloud orchestration and deployment tools

SD-WAN for Cloud BC/DR

Many IT organizations have embraced public cloud storage or private Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions as a cost effective way to ensure business continuity (BC) in the event of a disaster. While these services simplify the process of continual data backup and server replication, one challenge remains—static and inelastic network connectivity.

NetCloud Engine SD-WAN allows IT organization to deploy a virtual overlay network for BC/DR to connect remote and displaced workforce to backup servers and data from anywhere and any device. Since Cradlepoint networks are cloud-based and software-defined, you can seamlessly scale from a few to hundreds of connections—eliminating racks of idle hardware. With NetCloud Engine SmartZones, you can even deploy DR-based WAN parallel to your traditional WAN and control how traffic is routed between them.

Features:

Supports any server, VMs, containers on any private or public cloud

Secure DR access for Windows, Mac, Android and Apple devices

LAN over WAN connection for primary and backup server replication

Deploy in minutes or run parallel to your primary WAN

Scales instantly—without hardware—to support hundreds of connections

Integrated DNS service eliminates remapping of drives and FQDNs

Multi-layer security ensures compliance without additional overhead

Automatable using popular cloud orchestration and deployment tools

Benefits:

Provide business continuity in the event of a disaster displaces your workforce

Single solution that can support a breath of DR/BC requirements

Multi-cloud SDN platform routes around disasters to ensure high availability